Victoria, Australia, Police launch ‘Cold Case Hub' to get public help with unsolved murders

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Police launch ‘Cold Case Hub' to get public help with unsolved murders

In an Australia first, Victoria's cold case homicide investigators are set to throw open their files and ask the public to help find the killers.

Police will launch a new murder hub as part of a push to solve a series of unsolved murders by directly appealing to lost witnesses who they believe hold the key in some of Victoria's most baffling homicides.

Each murder has been selected after a panel decided they are close to being solved.

Using a technique developed in Canada, police will launch the Cold Case Hub to concentrate on some of Victoria's more than 200 unsolved murders.

 

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Victorian detectives seek public help to solve the state's most puzzling cold cases

For the first time, Victorian homicide detectives are sharing details of their most baffling cold cases in the hope someone will come forward to help solve them.

Information on five unsolved murders has been published on the Victoria Police's new cold case hub, and at least two new cases will be added each week.

"Many people may think they know these cases inside out from what they've seen on the news or heard in podcasts," Detective Inspector Tim Day said.

"The point is, if you're not the Homicide Squad investigator then you're not going to know the real facts.

"Now you can hear case details directly from the investigator, see photos, and watch video snippets," he said.

 

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Jane Thurgood-Dove's family pleads for leads as new cold case hub opens

Almost 25 years after the murder of Melbourne mother Jane Thurgood-Dove, police have thrown open the investigation files in the hope members of the public can solve the case.

It's one of five cold cases now open to the public in a new online hub, revealed by The Age on Sunday, that aims to shed light on some of the state's most baffling unsolved crimes.

Ms Thurgood-Dove's parents, John and Helen Magill, still hope someone has information on who killed their daughter in the driveway of her Niddrie home in November 1997. Police believe it was a case of mistaken identity.